hi guys welcome to another video will I ever buy a Chanel bag ever again new from store will I. I haven't bought a Chanel bag for the longest time. why not what is stopping me and can we answer the question of whether I will ever buy anything again. let's get going. so guys I love Chanel I really do love Chanel but there are various reasons why I have not bought a new from store Chanel bag for a such a long time. I can't actually remember the last one that I bought. it must be my denim. let's just grab it. it must be my denim Chanel 19. it must be my classic flap which is down there. and the walk. they were the first two the trendy I bought. and I sold the DOA which is over there somewhere. I'm pretty sure it must be this one. and it is an absolutely fabulous bag. I bought this in Paris in 2022. I'm pretty sure it was 2022. time matches on doesn't it. so I've had this over two years now. yeah two and

a half years. So in that time, since then, I have not bought a Chanel bag new from store. Now I have bought a Chanel bag very recently, which is this one, which is an absolute favorite. So this is the um mini rectangle in caviar, and the color of this is just perfect for me. I've used this bag so much more than I ever thought. It is my quick go-to grab it, love it, goes with everything, dress it up, dress it down, all the rest of it. It is a beautiful, it's like a petrol blue. It's definitely classed as blue, but it's definitely got a green undertone to it. It comes up quite quite bright on the screen, but in real life it's probably more like, yeah, that's probably a fair representation of it. Anyway, I bought this uh pre-loved from Bag Easter, and I love this bag. So what is stopping me buying you from store? Well, there's many, many, many reasons. The first and the biggest reason is the prices, the prices of the bags that I

really like in Chanel are just insane. Insanely expensive. They have gone up so much since I bought. I just grabbed this one so let's just talk about this one. This one I bought about again. I'll have to work out exactly when it was. It's about seven or eight years ago, I believe. And this was for £4,500. Now, at the time, it was extortionate and I was. I actually felt sick buying it but it didn't stop me. Now these are in the region of £10,000. So they have more than doubled in the last s years, something like that, which is just crazy because they were super expensive at the time. Now I know, I know the time value of money, it's a lot. It's a lot of years ago that I bought this but either way it has gone up Beyond recognition. Now does that put you off buying any more of these? Well, of course, it does. If these are £10,000 per bag, honestly, it is just insane, isn't it? So the classic flaps are completely out.

they're just out. The prices are just ridiculous. However, on top of that, even though the prices of the classic flaps are ridiculous, even if for some reason they had a huge price deal crease, which they will never do, but even if they did, I wouldn't know what to choose. I love the look of them, I love the style of them, I love cavar we'll come on to that, but the classic flap, the jumbo I have one, I don't want another one, one is enough for me. I like a bag with a top handle, I've realized that over the years, I like a bag with a top handle that also potentially has um, a cross-body function. If it is a smaller bag, if it's a bigger bag, I like a top handle, I don't mind it on the crook of the arm, but the classic flap, as we all know, the chain lens on them, I just, they just don't suit me at all. The jumbo, it goes nicely over shoulder, doubled up, but it

isn't my favorite style of bag to wear it like that, so I wouldn't buy another jumbo. I'm glad I've got that one. The medium large is a beautiful size bag, but the chain is just. It's not one thing or another. It doesn't sit under your arm. If you double it up, it won't go under my arm. It just sits sort of quite a sort of like halfway. It's not really a long shoulder bag, and it's definitely not a crossbody bag. Yeah, it doesn't have a top handle. And the same again with the, with the small size. The Maxi, forget it. That's even bigger than the jumbo. So there we have, back to the mini, where at least it has a crossbody chain. And the chain length on this, I wish it was a smidgin longer, but it is. It's definitely doable for me. So this becomes the perfect classic flap, but it's not even classed as a classic flap. It is, I suppose it's just the mini.

rectangle so yeah the Styles really whether it is the classic flaps or whether it is some of the other styles. Nothing grabs me in Chanel like Louis Vuitton does like Dior do obviously. I have my love of Hermes. I don't love everything in Hermes but I love the Birkins and the Kelly and oh I do like the Evelyne. I just yeah but in Chanel I just struggle. I go in there and it all looks really beautiful and I just will never see something that I think that is the one I have to have it in. In which case I don't buy. I just don't buy anything. They going on from the Styles and the colors. The colors they do a lot of seasonal colors that are just. They do lots of pinks and yellows again there's never it's very rare that a color comes through that I just absolutely have to have. This obviously is a beautiful it's still quite dark but it is it's neutral but it's got something about it. These are

very rare and they're really hard to come by something of this color. I love I love certain greens obviously. I love blacks and Navy BL. I love burgundies. I don't like pastel Shades and it seems to be a lot of pastel Shades, a lot of ice cream colors. I think they're called watercolors. They're just not really my cup of tea. There's a lot of beige colors and caramels and tan colors again. They're not really my cup of tea. Following on from that, Chanel don't do a lot of caviar anymore, not in the styles that I like. So I love the trendy as in the style of it. It was the flap bag. It had a top handle. It had a shortish cross body chain, but at least it had a chain. And it only ever came in lamb skin as far as I know. It may it may have come out in a goat skin. I really don't know, but it definitely hasn't come out in caviar. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've

never seen one. I've been on the hunt for one forever. And maybe just the amount of leather in that would make it too heavy is far heavier than Lambkin. I think it maybe is. I don't know. But my point is that I just, yeah, there's just not that much in caviar. And therefore, yeah, I just, I can never find anything I love. I do love the Chanel 19, obviously. I've got the denim. Part of me wishes, don't come for me. Part of me wishes that I'd just gone for a classic leather in this. I think I would have used it so much more. I think I got carried away in the moment. Oh, it looks nice with the top, actually, doesn't it? But it is such a seasonal bag. And I don't know, I just feel like I don't use it anywhere near as much as I should. So, part of me wishes I'd got this in the leather. But I would only go for the goat skin because it's a little bit more

durable than the lamb skin. Again, they don't do this in caviar. So yeah, there's lots of reasons. There's also a big reason why I won't buy Chanel anymore. Is the following on from why I don't like lamb skin is the quality of the lamb skin. I had a trendy CC in the gray lamb skin, and I've also had a card holder in the lamb skin, and it just doesn't hold up well, not like caviar. This is a four or five year old bag, I think, and it is beautiful, and it's lost a little bit of shape here over time, but the caviar itself, the leather itself, there's nothing on the corners. It's absolutely beautiful. It really, really is. There's literally nothing to note on it, whereas my trendy CC, I hardly used it. In fact, I did a video a while ago, and I was talking about it, obviously before I decided to sell it, and as I was showing it, I saw a big scratch on it and the

scratch was only there from me taking it from down from the Shelf, cuz I hadn't used it. So it is so delicate, and the card holder obviously being in and out of your bag, yeah. And actually I did sell the card holder, and the person who's bought it absolutely loves it. And it is, it is beautiful, but it did have little signs of wear on it. And whereas my daughter has the caviar version, not even a mark on it. So I, I'm not overly sure about the quality of Chanel Lambkin. I'm just, I don't know. I don't know. I'm just not overly sure. And the other reason that I struggle with Chanel is just the customer service. Now I know I, I have had my issues with heres, but when my sales associate was there before he left, and obviously my sales associate before him, they were both amazing. And I only ever had up until that point really, really good customer service at Ms. Dior. Are impeccable, impeccable. Susie in Manchester and selfie just Dior you.

could not find a nicer person if you tried. She is simply unbelievable. She really, really is. And everyone at Dr. has been amazing with me. Um, Louis Vuitton, obviously, my James, my James in London Bond Street. He is just, again, equally is insanely amazing. So I have no worries about Dior or um, or Louis Vuitton or even here's. I know I've had my different issues and Fendi. I have been welcomed at Fendi both in the Bond Street store but in particular in Selfes. Honestly, when I got my, uh, my Fendi first, my first Fendi first, which is, I love that bag so much. Yeah, Craig who looked after me with that purchase, he could not have been nicer. His whole team could not have been nicer. So Fendi, amazing. Chanel, no. You either get really bad customer service where they literally don't want to help you or you sort of rushed in and out a little bit. I've never been able to forge a relationship with anybody in Chanel, whether in Manchester or in

London and I don't really understand why it's just a different experience in there for me than it is in all the other fashion houses. So it does put me off. It does. It won't put me off buying a bag because if there's something I want, I won't let somebody's attitude, for example, sort of stop me from buying something. However, it does put you off wanting to even go into store, doesn't it? So overall, Chanel, I want to love it. I do love it. I love the look of it. It's so classic, it's beautiful, but it's going down the list for me of my um, it was always in my top four favorite Brands, and I just don't think it is anymore. If you think I haven't hardly bought anything from Chanel, and this would be definitely the last thing, must have been, and this was um, two and a bit years ago, and I haven't even contemplated buying anything new from store. So what is the answer? Will I ever buy anything from Chanel again?

from store well never say never. They may well bring something back that is a little bit more like this in sort of like a beautiful crossb mini that's in caviar in an amazing color, or something that's more like the trendy that's a flat bag with a little top handle. For example, in cavar in a really nice color. So I would say, Never Say Never. I would love to buy Chanel. I really would, but I'm not buying for the sake of a label. I'm really not. So at this moment in time, I cannot see anything that's coming out or come out or anything else that I would buy from store. There's literally nothing. The collections come and go, and they don't interest me at all. Um, will I buy pre-loved Chanel? Yes, yes, again, I'm a little bit in love with the mini. So if something happens to fall on my lap that happens to be something that I love from collections past that is cavar, then probably because hopefully I can get a

reasonable price compared to these crazy prices that are now in store. So the answer is never say never. It's Never Say Never. It's unlikely in the near future, but you never know. I never know. I never want to say that I will never do something again because I'll prove myself wrong, and I'll have to come back on here and say I lied. So yeah, let me know what you guys think about the current collections in Chanel. Guys, if you are loving things, are you still Die Hard Chanel fans? Do you have good customer service? If so, where do you shop? If in the UK, let me know. Let me know where you shop. Anyway, thank you so much for watching. I'll see you on another one.

WHY I HAVEN'T BOUGHT ANYTHING FROM CHANEL IN OVER 2 YEARS! COULD I EVER BE TEMPTED AGAIN?

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